Hey, guess what, I’ve got a terrific job here in Carrucan, two days a week after school and all day Saturdays. There’s this kid at school I’ve got friendly with, Martin, and his dad runs a plant nursery. Mart and me get paid for watering the plants and carrying things out to people’s cars and stuff like that. I even got a promotion yesterday at where I work. Marty’s dad says, ‘Hey, Seymour, you’re such a good worker, I’m moving you on to bigger and better things.’ I say, ‘Wow! What?’ He says, ‘You can stack all those bags of fertiliser in the shed today instead of sweeping the paths.’ (!!)

He’s OK, though. We went to this airforce show last weekend, it was unreal!

Angie, I’m glad you went to Lakeview and you didn’t nick off. I’m glad you’re staying there till the baby’s born. I used to get these dreams, you know, about how you’d manage and what it would be like. They were pretty awful.

Anyhow, you can’t very well nick off anywhere in your condition, can you? Honest, I didn’t laugh at the photo you sent. You look OK in it, Ange. You look nice. I like that name you gave that dress, too, Barnum Bros Circus. It suits you looking…well, sort of chubby.

This present I’m sending—I carved it out of soapstone. Sorry the horses are a funny shape—Mart reckons they look more like flying kangaroos, but he helped me stick the hook things on the backs. You don’t have to wear them if you think they’re weird, but you like daggy earrings, so maybe you’ll like these.

My dad came down to see me a couple of months ago. It was all right this time, he stayed in the motel and took me out a few times. He’s got some kind of job with a mate of his who drives a truck, so he’ll be moving around a fair bit. He says he’ll send a postcard from all the different places. At least now he knows where to send it! I hope Carrucan’s going to last longer than all those other places. I think it will.

Mart and me go down the pool a lot, it’s a heated one here. I still can’t swim very well, but I can sort of get around in the water now without drowning.

Let’s know as soon as the baby comes, and when you get back home, we’ll take it to the zoo to see the orang-outang. Lots of places we can take it.

You hang right in there, Angie!

Love from Seymour